He Could Have Seen What Was Coming: Behind Trump’s Failure on the Virus

[gargamon]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/11/us/politics/coronavirus-trump-response.html

 

An examination reveals the president was warned about the potential for a pandemic but that internal divisions, lack of planning and his faith in his own instincts led to a halting response.

 

WASHINGTON — “Any way you cut it, this is going to be bad,” a senior medical adviser at the Department of Veterans Affairs, Dr. Carter Mecher, wrote on the night of Jan. 28, in an email to a group of public health experts scattered around the government and universities. “The projected size of the outbreak already seems hard to believe.”

A week after the first coronavirus case had been identified in the United States, and six long weeks before President Trump finally took aggressive action to confront the danger the nation was facing — a pandemic that is now forecast to take tens of thousands of American lives — Dr. Mecher was urging the upper ranks of the nation’s public health bureaucracy to wake up and prepare for the possibility of far more drastic action.

“You guys made fun of me screaming to close the schools,” he wrote to the group, which called itself “Red Dawn,” an inside joke based on the 1984 movie about a band of Americans trying to save the country after a foreign invasion. “Now I’m screaming, close the colleges and universities.”

His was hardly a lone voice. Throughout January, as Mr. Trump repeatedly played down the seriousness of the virus and focused on other issues, an array of figures inside his government — from top White House advisers to experts deep in the cabinet departments and intelligence agencies — identified the threat, sounded alarms and made clear the need for aggressive action.

 

The president, though, was slow to absorb the scale of the risk and to act accordingly, focusing instead on controlling the message, protecting gains in the economy and batting away warnings from senior officials. It was a problem, he said, that had come out of nowhere and could not have been foreseen.

 

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Lots more in the referenced article. Thank you Mr. Trump...

[mfd101]

People vote for idiots, they get idiotic government. What did they expect?

 

- Yes, but he's one of us. He's just like us. That's why we voted for him. And we're going to vote for him again in November.

[JimmyTheMook]

Blood on his hands.

[Thailand]

And despite this and everything else he will probably get 4 more years.

Sadly just don't see a President Biden.

[bkk6060]

1 minute ago, Thailand said:

And despite this and everything else he will probably get 4 more years.

Sadly just don't see a President Biden.

Sure.

Trump will win in a landslide.

By November this will all be slowed down big time and the markets will be rising.

Biden has been Silent Joe.  Now way he will get elected.